Schoolhouse Rock - Science Rock

Victim of Gravity

Music & Lyrics: Lynn Ahrens
Sung by: The Tokens
Animation: Kim & Gifford Productions

Down, down, down, down gravity!

Helpin' wash the dishes
And I drop a cup.
Why does everything fall down,
Instead of up?
Ridin' up a hill, I spill
And hit the ground.
Wish I could fall up instead of always fallin' down.
}} Down de down down down...

I'm a victim of gravity,  }} Oh, yeah...
Everything keeps falling down on me.  }} Down, down, down...
No matter where I go, the forces that I know  }} Keep pullin' me...
Down, down, down, down, down, down.  }} It's all around town, now.

It's like a magnet, deep inside the ground.
When I lift something up, I feel it pullin' down.
}} {It pulls me in the pool, it pulls rain down on me.}
I'm a victim of down, down, down, down gravity, yeah.

Galileo                          }} [Galileo, Galileo]
Galileo, galilee                 }} [Oooh, galilee]
He did experiments               }} [Galileo, Galileo]
With a force he couldn't see.    }} Could not see, yeah...
He allowed that all things fall  }} [Galileo, Galileo]
To earth at the very same speed. }} Very same speed, yeah...
He didn't know it yet...         }} [Galileo, Galileo]
                                 }} But that was due to gravity!

}} The Moon goes round the Earth,
}} And shines its silver light.
}} The Earth goes round the Sun,
}} And makes the seasons right.
It isn't love that makes the world go round, you see...
}} It's the power of gravity... {But please!}
Don't tell Mary-Jean!  }} Down de down down down...

}} Without Earth's gravity
}} To keep us in our place,
}} We'd have no weight at all,
}} We'd be in outer space.
The sea would float away,
And so would fields and towns.
Down, down, down, down, down, yeah.

Isaac Newton, underneath the apple tree,  }} Apple tree, yeah...
One hit him on the head, he said
"That must be gravity!"

}} {Newton's Law of Gravity says that every object in the Universe
}}  pulls on every other object.  The bigger the object, the stronger
}}  the pull.  But the greater the distance between the objects, the
}}  weaker the pull becomes.
}}
}}  Come back, Mary-Jean!}

Don't call me clumsy,
Don't ca-al me a fool.
When things fall down on me,
I'm following the rule.
The rule that says that what goes up comes down like me...
}} I'm a victim of...
Down, down, down, down, gravity...
Sho-be-do down, down, down!